Articles

[Viewpoint] The Right and Wrong of Quark and Adobe Strategies

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

By Eric Kuhnen, Focal Partners, special to The Content Wrangler

Quark and Adobe have been after each for a long time, and there are metaphors aplenty to overlay this conflict. First, it was attrition warfare between QuarkXPress and PageMaker, which embroiled Adobe ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Technological Innovation

SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes: CMS Watch Cites Collaboration Pros, Proliferation Cons

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is repeating history as it mimics the allure and pitfalls of Lotus Notes, according to research released today by CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.

SharePoint exploits traditionally ...

Filed under: Content Management

DocTrain East ‘08 Call for Participation: Content Quality and Software Documentation Are Focus Areas

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Held in the high tech sector in Burlington, Massachusetts, October 29-November 1, 2008 the theme of the 10th Annual Documentation and Training East 2008 Conference is Producing Quality Content. The event includes a special track dedicated to software documentation ...

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing

Quark Announces Dynamic Publishing Solution: Fills Much Needed Gaps in End-to-End Publishing Void

Thursday, March 06, 2008

We could have predicted it. In fact, we did. But, we were asked to keep it a secret until after Quark, widely known for its desktop publishing tools, announced a major change of direction for the firm and its products. It’s a most exciting announcement, the first ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Marketing Communication : Publishing : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Xpress Author for Word : Technological Innovation : XML

The New Recipe for Pharma Success

Monday, March 03, 2008

By Paul Wlodarczyk, JustSystems

One look at the numbers reveals the high stakes game that pharmaceutical companies play in their efforts to bring new drugs to market. In the United States, the numbers include:

$800 million to $1 billion—the average cost of moving a ...

Filed under: Content Management : Life Sciences : Structured Content : Technological Innovation : XML

Excellent and Consistent Content Development through Agile and Scrum

Saturday, March 01, 2008

By Eric Kuhnen, Focal Partners

According to the Conference Board’s CEO Challenge 2007 (published in October 2007), chief executives predict that execution will take precedence over profit or top-line revenue growth. Indeed, excellence in execution and consistent ...

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing : Technological Innovation

DITA Evolution and the Effect on Content Management Systems

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

By Joe Gelb, Suite Solutions, special to TheContentWrangler

As the Darwin Information Typing Architecutre (DITA) gains wider acceptance as an XML standard for technical documentation, there has been increased activity towards interoperability with other standards, ...